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AMFORTAS’S SUFFERING.
A very beautiful answer to this is the music with which the promise of the healing knight is introduced. It is sung by Gurnemanz, and repeated by the young knights who are with him:
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THE PROMISE.
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Durch Mitleid wissend, der reine Tor. By pity 'lightened The guileless fool. |
With Kundry we find associated three principal musical ideas. The first of these is that which places before us the wildness of her nature, the stormy flight, and the curse of laughter:
